Marc Cellucci discusses canceled RPG for the Dreamcast’s VMU
Posted by George. Filed under George, Retro, iPhone/iPod. Tagged with Canceled, Dreamcast, interview, RPG, VMU.
You remember the VMU, visual memory unit, for the Sega Dreamcast? It hasn’t been that long has it? It might not be as amazing as it was back in 1999, but it was mind blowing to me back then. It was like a little game inside a bigger game! What if someone told you that you could play a full RPG on that thing? Marc Cellucci has left Sega, but in a recent interview with Siliconera he talks about his canceled RPG:
“The one I think I can mention is one I was working on in the Sega.com days — it was an RPG for the VMU. It was a side project being done by about three of us, and we had a full world map, scrolling engine, and game design all fleshed out, when the plug got pulled from on high. In retrospect, they were probably right… I don’t see a VMU RPG changing the fate of the Dreamcast! We still wanted to make it, though.”
Marc Cellucci started his job at Sega doing web work for Dreamcast Network, then started writing for Segasports.com, Sega.com and SegaNet. After this he went to Japan to study Japanese for a couple of years, got a job at marketing. But he went back to Sega, got a Job with AM3 arcade division and worked on the successful Dinosaur King franchise.
What does he do now? He has his own company called Mission One and they’re bringing a Pachinko game to the iPhone. The game is called Sho Chiku Bai and the music is composed by Norihiko Hibino. (worked on Metal Gear Solid series and upcoming Ninja Blade)
[Source Siliconera]
Old Sega patents found in the depths of the Internet
Posted by Graham. Filed under G, News, Retro. Tagged with Dreamcast, Unreleased, VMU.
A couple of the chaps over at Insert Credit have been browsing through the Google Patent Archives, looking for God knows what, when they stumbled upon some pretty cool, old gaming patents.
Among the companies with the random patents in the Google archives were; Sony, Tomy, Konami, Nintendo and (you guessed it) Sega -Â plus a few more.
It seems that a fair few patents are for unreleased pieces of technology from the various companies, or old (discarded) designs for later released goods.
Take a look at a few of the patents the Insert Credit boys found, after the break.